A candy store for the evil impulse…

I’m always amazed what I can learn over lunch. Today, I was surfing MSNBC.com and ran across a headline that is sure to draw clicks: “Kosher cell phones ring up growth”. Who could resist?

It would seem that multi-function cell phones are under fire from religious groups as tools bringing sex (“and other worldly temptations”) into the community. A magazine was even quoted calling cell phones “a candy store for the evil impulse”! So, an ambitious Israeli subsidiary of Motorola has been working with Orthodox leaders to develop a phone that is simply a phone and has a carefully managed list of blocked numbers (incoming and outgoing). An interesting idea.

Personally, if they would just squelch the explosion of annoying ring tones, then I’m on board with it 🙂 Vibrate only? Probably not.